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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I

by Henry Cabot Lodge

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Editor
Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919
Title
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
Credits
E-text prepared by Joseph R. Hauser, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject
Literature -- Collections
Category
Text
eBook-No.
24563
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24563
Release Date
February 9, 2008
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE BEST — of the — World's Classics — RESTRICTED TO PROSE
  2. 2.FRANCIS W. HALSEY — Associate Editor — With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc. — IN TEN VOLUMES — Vol. VII — CONTINENTAL EUROPE—I — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY — NEW YORK AND LONDON — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
  3. 3.CONTINENTAL EUROPE—I
  4. 4.Vol. VII—Continental Europe—I
  5. 5.354 a.d. —1471 a.d.
  6. 6.ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE
  7. 7.IMPERIAL POWER FOR GOOD AND BAD MEN [1] — FOOTNOTES:
  8. 8.ANICIUS BOETHIUS
  9. 9.THE HIGHEST HAPPINESS [2] — FOOTNOTES:
  10. 10.ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
  11. 11.A DEFINITION OF HAPPINESS [3] — FOOTNOTES:
  12. 12.THOMAS À KEMPIS
  13. 13.OF ETERNAL LIFE AND OF STRIVING FOR IT [4] — FOOTNOTES:
  14. 14.TWELFTH CENTURY—1885
  15. 15.GEOFFREY DE VILLE-HARDOUIN
  16. 16.(1204) — FOOTNOTES:
  17. 17.JEAN DE JOINVILLE
  18. 18.GREEK FIRE IN BATTLE [7] — FOOTNOTES:
  19. 19.AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE
  20. 20.JEAN FROISSART
  21. 21.(1346) — FOOTNOTES:
  22. 22.PHILIPPE DE COMINES
  23. 23.OF THE CHARACTER OF LOUIS XI [9] — FOOTNOTES:
  24. 24.MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME
  25. 25.OF HUSBANDS WHO ARE UNFAITHFUL [10] — FOOTNOTES:
  26. 26.FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
  27. 27.GARGANTUA IN HIS CHILDHOOD [12] — FOOTNOTES:
  28. 28.GARGANTUA'S EDUCATION [14] — FOOTNOTES:
  29. 29.OF THE FOUNDING OF AN IDEAL ABBEY [15] — FOOTNOTES:
  30. 30.JOHN CALVIN
  31. 31.OF FREEDOM FOR THE WILL [16] — FOOTNOTES:
  32. 32.JOACHIM DU BELLAY
  33. 33.WHY OLD FRENCH WAS NOT AS RICH AS GREEK AND LATIN [17] — FOOTNOTES:
  34. 34.MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
  35. 35.A WORD TO HIS READERS [19] — FOOTNOTES:
  36. 36.OF SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE [20] — FOOTNOTES:
  37. 37.OF HIS OWN LIBRARY [21] — FOOTNOTES:
  38. 38.THAT THE SOUL DISCHARGES HER PASSIONS UPON FALSE OBJECTS WHERE TRUE ONES ARE WANTING. [22] — FOOTNOTES:
  39. 39.THAT MEN ARE NOT TO JUDGE OF OUR HAPPINESS TILL AFTER DEATH [23] — FOOTNOTES:
  40. 40.RENÉ DESCARTES
  41. 41.OF MATERIAL THINGS AND OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD [25] — FOOTNOTES:
  42. 42.DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
  43. 43.A SELECTION FROM THE "MAXIMS" [26] — FOOTNOTES:
  44. 44.BLAISE PASCAL
  45. 45.OF THE PREVALENCE OF SELF-LOVE [29] — FOOTNOTES:
  46. 46.MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ
  47. 47.GREAT NEWS FROM PARIS [30] — FOOTNOTES:
  48. 48.AN IMPOSING FUNERAL DESCRIBED [31] — FOOTNOTES:
  49. 49.ALAIN RENÉ LE SAGE
  50. 50.IN THE SERVICE OF DR. SANGRADO [32] — FOOTNOTES:
  51. 51.AS AN ARCHBISHOP'S FAVORITE [33] — FOOTNOTES:
  52. 52.DUC DE SAINT-SIMON
  53. 53.THE DEATH OF THE DAUPHIN [34] — FOOTNOTES:
  54. 54.THE PUBLIC WATCHING THE KING AND MADAME [35] — FOOTNOTES:
  55. 55.BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
  56. 56.OF THE CAUSES WHICH DESTROYED ROME [38] — FOOTNOTES:
  57. 57.OF THE RELATION OF LAWS TO DIFFERENT HUMAN BEINGS [39] — FOOTNOTES:
  58. 58.FRANÇOIS AROUET VOLTAIRE
  59. 59.OF BACON'S GREATNESS [40] — FOOTNOTES:
  60. 60.ENGLAND'S REGARD FOR MEN OF LETTERS [41] — FOOTNOTES:
  61. 61.JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
  62. 62.OF CHRIST AND SOCRATES
  63. 63.OF THE MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN [46] — FOOTNOTES:
  64. 64.MADAME DE STAËL
  65. 65.OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE [47] — FOOTNOTES:
  66. 66.VISCOUNT DE CHATEAUBRIAND
  67. 67.IN AN AMERICAN FOREST [48] — FOOTNOTES:
  68. 68.FRANÇOIS GUIZOT
  69. 69.SHAKESPEARE AS AN EXAMPLE OF CIVILIZATION [49] — FOOTNOTES:
  70. 70.ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
  71. 71.OF MIRABEAU'S ORIGIN AND PLACE IN HISTORY [51] — FOOTNOTES:
  72. 72.LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS
  73. 73.THE BURNING OF MOSCOW [52] — FOOTNOTES:
  74. 74.HONORÉ DE BALZAC
  75. 75.THE DEATH OF PÉRE GORIOT [54] — FOOTNOTES:
  76. 76.BIROTTEAU'S EARLY MARRIED LIFE [55] — FOOTNOTES:
  77. 77.ALFRED DE VIGNY
  78. 78.RICHELIEU'S WAY WITH HIS MASTER [56] — FOOTNOTES:
  79. 79.VICTOR HUGO
  80. 80.THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO [57] — FOOTNOTES:
  81. 81.THE BEGINNINGS AND EXPANSIONS OF PARIS [58] — FOOTNOTES:
  82. 82.ALEXANDRE DUMAS
  83. 83.THE SHOULDER, THE BELT, AND THE HANDKERCHIEF [59] — FOOTNOTES:
  84. 84.GEORGE SAND
  85. 85.LÉLIA AND THE POET [60] — FOOTNOTES: — END OF VOL. VII.

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